Will he part the Red Sea when he is done his speech?

If the shoe is stubborn and Obama needs a quick escape route, why not?

Now translated for the international edition:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...668660,00.html

If the negotiating with Talkiban is meant to be an exit strategy, I nevertheless wonder why one sees the need to legitmise the enemy before one is leaving, instead of just leaving, or talk only to those not belonging to the international terror network and/or the Taliban.

In the long run, even any deal with the Taliban on international goals and issues and how Afghanistan should act and not engage in terrorism, will not last once the troops have left. Quranic law demands Muslims to not accept any treaties with infidel enemies being honoured for longer than 2 years (to assure that Muslim detemrination and pourity does not get compromised too much). And for Afghan standards, a treaty or deal holding for 2 years already is a deal lasting quite long. Already during the Soviet occupation, the some relguiously motivated warlords, mujaheddin and their allies told their CIA contacts and Western correspondents that while currently they are fighting the soviets, they nevertheless plan to destabilise the Southern russian provinces next, and bring Islamic djihad to the West as well.

That school project mentioned in that Spiegel essay obviously did not anything to hinder that, nor did it help to keep the number of Pakistani madrassas low.

really ?
You don't half talk rubbish Skybird.
But go on give us a laugh, show the law.